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• BYU’s football COVID-19 testing protocols come into focus

  27-08-2020 23:45
  
  Up until now, BYU staff has been mute on specific pandemic protocols, instead covering general topics, like social distancing and face masks. Following Thursday’s practice Cougar defensive back Troy Warner finally provided some insight into what testing is like: Players are getting tested three times a week.“We’re been real diligent about it and just trying to do our part in staying healthy for the season,” Warner said. “We’re very, very lucky to be playing th
  
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• Utah arts groups and venues receive $9 million in pandemic-survival grants

  27-08-2020 23:11
  
  Utah’s largest arts organizations will receive a combined $9 million in emergency grants to help them survive the pandemic, state officials announced this week.The money, appropriated by the Utah Legislature from the federal CARES Act, will be distributed to the 15 largest arts organizations and venues in the state. Each has an operating budget of more than $5 million.The organizations that will receive grants include:• Ballet West.• Broadway Media.• Fan X (Dan Farr Producti
  
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• Police largely silent as outrage builds over Jacob Blake shooting

  27-08-2020 22:50
  
  It took three days, an outpouring of anger in the streets and a NBA boycott before authorities investigating the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, started answering some of the most basic questions about what happened.And still, many key pieces of information have yet to be released, fueling speculation over why a white officer shot Blake in the back at close range Sunday as the Black man leaned into his SUV.Police maintain they are not hiding information but can’t reve
  
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• Gail Collins: Don’t be dense, beware Mike Pence

  27-08-2020 22:00
  
  It’s possible you failed to notice, but the Republican convention has a theme for each night. The list sounds a little like a Lord of the Rings theme park: Land of Promise, Land of Opportunity, Land of Heroes and Land of Greatness.You know Donald Trump’s big day is going to be Land of Greatness, right? Well, obviously. But do you think even the president felt a little wave of irony when he gave Mike Pence responsibility for Land of Heroes?Lots of ways you could celebrate Pence’
  
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• Utah’s slowly declining unemployment claims a sign of broader economic recovery

  27-08-2020 21:48
  
  Thousands of Utahns remain out of work due to the pandemic, but steady improvements in the job market and other economic indicators in several new reports paint the state as the envy of the country.For a third consecutive week, more than 6,000 Utahns dropped their jobless claims and stopped collecting benefits, a sign they have returned to work. That exceeded the number of new claims filed during the week ending Aug. 22, at 5,628, the state Department of Workforce Services said Thursday.Ongoing
  
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• Kelley O’Hara will not play for Utah Royals in NWSL fall series

  27-08-2020 21:35
  
  The Utah Royals FC will be without one of its main players again in another restart to the National Women’s Soccer League season.Defender Kelley O’Hara, who is also a defender for the U.S. Women’s National Team, has officially opted out of the NWSL fall series scheduled to start on Sept. 5, per a Royals spokesperson. O’Hara’s decision comes less than two weeks after a reported trade had her leaving URFC for the Washington Spirit. Since then, however, it appears thos
  
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• Salt Lake City unveils its new international airport, described as a ’cathedral’

  27-08-2020 21:33
  
  The new Salt Lake City International Airport — described as a “cathedral to transportation” — is now cleared for take-off, despite recent worries that the COVID-19 pandemic might delay that.After six years of construction, officials held an unveiling ceremony Thursday to show off the first phase of the new $4.1 billion facility — which was essentially built on top of the existing airport while operations continued. It includes a shiny new terminal, concourse and par
  
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• Utah’s new COVID-19 cases stay below 400, with no new school outbreaks reported Thursday

  27-08-2020 21:23
  
  Editor’s note: The Salt Lake Tribune is providing free access to critical stories about the coronavirus. Sign up for our Top Stories newsletter, sent to your inbox every weekday morning. To support journalism like this, please donate or become a subscriber.With 383 new coronavirus cases reported on Thursday, Utah’s rate of new diagnoses declined and for more than two weeks has stayed under the governor’s target of fewer than 400 cases per day.For the past seven days, Utah has a
  
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• It’s wheels up as new Salt Lake City International Airport is unveiled at ceremony

  27-08-2020 21:05
  
  The new Salt Lake City International Airport — described as a “cathedral to transportation” — is now cleared for take-off, despite recent worries that the COVID-19 pandemic might delay that.After six years of construction, officials held an unveiling ceremony Thursday to show off the first phase of the new $4.1 billion facility — which was essentially built on top of the existing airport while operations continued. It includes a shiny new terminal, concourse and par
  
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• Supporting Subscribers and Basic Subscription FAQs

  27-08-2020 20:59
  
  Do I need a subscription to read Salt Lake Tribune content?Visitors to sltrib.com can view 7 different articles (including opinion columns, comments pages and multimedia features) each month for free. Access to our homepage, section pages, podcasts and obituaries is unrestricted.I want to learn more about The New York Times offerClick here to learn more about this offerWhat do I get with my digital subscription?Supporting Subscribers receive unlimited access to all content on www.sltrib.com and
  
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• Hurricane Laura blasts Louisiana with wind, rain and wall of seawater

  27-08-2020 20:55
  
  Lake Charles, La. • One of the strongest hurricanes ever to strike the U.S. pounded the Gulf Coast with wind and rain Thursday as Laura roared ashore in Louisiana near the Texas border, unleashing a fearsome wall of seawater and killing at least two people.Louisiana took the brunt of the damage when the Category 4 system barreled over Lake Charles, an industrial and casino city of 80,000 people. Laura’s powerful gusts blew out windows in tall buildings and tossed around glass and debr
  
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• Utah breweries beg for a liquor license

  27-08-2020 20:46
  
  Squatters and Wasatch breweries have received a liquor license for their soon-to-open Craft Cafe, but not before company leaders endured a tongue-lashing from the state liquor commission.Officials with the Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said they were “deeply concerned” about alcohol violations that occurred in February at Squatters Pub in downtown Salt Lake City.The missteps occurred during a Utah Brewers Guild seminar to help members better understand state liquor po
  
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• The Pac-12 will not play basketball before Jan. 1, so where does Utah go from here?

  27-08-2020 20:30
  
  The Pac-12 finds itself on a basketball island.When the league announced on Aug. 11 that it was postponing all sport competitions through the end of the calendar year, that means just what it says. All Pac-12 sports include men’s basketball, which remains scheduled to begin nationwide on Nov. 10. That start date could change in the coming weeks as talks at the conference and NCAA levels are beginning to ramp up.Either way, the Pac-12 is the only Division I conference, let alone the only Po
  
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• Reports: NBA playoffs will resume, though Thursday’s games are postponed; Jazz-Nuggets Game 6 slated for Sunday

  27-08-2020 20:21
  
  In a Thursday morning meeting among members of the National Basketball Players Association, it was decided that the 2020 NBA playoffs will continue, according to multiple reports.Thursday’s three scheduled games — including Game 6 between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets — will be postponed.The conclusion of the league’s postseason was thought to be in jeopardy Wednesday, when the Milwaukee Bucks declined to take the court for their game against the Orlando Magic in prote
  
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• Gordon Monson: For all those angered by angry athletes, please consider this …

  27-08-2020 20:16
  
  It seems that some sports fans are angry and frustrated at NBA players for being angry and frustrated about the racial inequality in the country, and their demonstrating that anger and frustration by boycotting games and briefly considering threatening to walk out on the postseason in the bubble.I’ve heard it all from those fans, accusing players of being “spoiled” and“out of touch” and “uneducated” and “meaning to do the country harm.” Some
  
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• George Chapman: Salt Lake City needs a bigger police budget

  27-08-2020 19:58
  
  A recent killing in the Ballpark neighborhood is one of several in the last year that has added to the community’s frustration with the lack of solutions for the increase in crime.The area has been known for years as a crime hot spot for drug traffic and prostitution. The Utah Transit Authority removed their bus stop at 1300 South and State due to the criminal activity. But Operation Rio Grande, called Operation Leaf Blower by the county’s police chiefs, disbursed the homeless that w
  
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• More than 1 million Americans file for unemployment, again

  27-08-2020 19:46
  
  Washington • Just over 1 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, a sign that the coronavirus outbreak continues to threaten jobs even as the housing market, auto sales and other segments of the economy rebound from a springtime collapse.The Labor Department reported Thursday that the number of people seeking jobless aid last week dropped by 98,000 from 1.1 million the week before.The number of initial claims has exceeded 1 million every week but one since late March,
  
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• RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen says he feels ‘disrespected’ by his players following game postponement

  27-08-2020 18:57
  
  The morning after Real Salt Lake and LAFC decided to not play their scheduled game Wednesday night at Rio Tinto Stadium, RSL owner Dell Loy Hansen responded with what he described as “profound disappointment.”Speaking on the local show “Radio From Hell,” Hansen said the boycott of the game went against what the RSL stands for, which is a sense of community building and family. He likened the team’s decision to a backstabbing.“It’s a moment of sadness,&rd
  
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• The Conversation: Religious tourism has been hit hard in the pandemic as sites close and pilgrimages are put on hold

  27-08-2020 18:55
  
  Religious tourism is among the oldest forms of planned travel and to this day remains a huge industry.About 300 million to 330 million tourists visit the world’s key religious sites every year, according to a 2017 estimate. Some 600 million national and international religious trips are made around the world, generating around $18 billion (U.S.) in global revenues. It makes up a sizable chunk of an overall tourism sector that has been significantly affected by the spread of the coronavirus
  
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• Reports: NBA playoffs will resume, though Thursday’s games are postponed

  27-08-2020 18:22
  
  In a Thursday morning meeting among members of the National Basketball Players Association, it was decided that the 2020 NBA playoffs will continue, according to multiple reports.Thursday’s three scheduled games — including Game 6 between the Utah Jazz and Denver Nuggets — will be postponed.The conclusion of the league’s postseason was thought to be in jeopardy Wednesday, when the Milwaukee Bucks declined to take the court for their game against the Orlando Magic in prote
  
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• Jana Riess: I’m loving the LDS Church’s new online temple prayer roll system

  27-08-2020 18:20
  
  In temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the dressing room is a place of quiet expectation. There’s a feeling of busy activity. Some people are preparing for an endowment session and others are returning from one, ready to change out of their all-white temple wear and into everyday clothing.But those coming or going from a session can pay their respects at a modest wooden box on the dressing room counter, where they’re invited to take a tiny pencil and scribble
  
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• Report: NBA will resume playoffs, but Thursday’s games — including Jazz-Nuggets — are postponed

  27-08-2020 18:06
  
  A general view outside of The Field House in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| (Kim Klement/Pool Photo via AP) SALT LAKE CITY — After games in leagues across the country were not played Wednesday in response to the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on Sunday, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that NBA players have decided to resume the season, although Thursday’s three playoff games — a schedule that included Game 6 of the Utah Jazz-Denver Nuggets series &mdas
  
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• NBA will resume playoffs, but Thursday’s games — including Jazz-Nuggets — are postponed

  27-08-2020 18:06
  
  A general view outside of The Field House in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.| (Kim Klement/Pool Photo via AP) SALT LAKE CITY — After games in leagues across the country were not played Wednesday in response to the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on Sunday, league sources confirmed Adrian Wojnarowski’s ESPN report that NBA players have decided to resume the season, although Thursday’s three playoff games — a schedule that included Game 6 of the Utah Jazz-Denv
  
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• Justice Department executes Navajo man against the wishes of tribal leaders

  27-08-2020 17:58
  
  Washington • The Justice Department executed the only Native American man on federal death row Wednesday, against the wishes of Navajo leaders and hundreds of Native American citizens who called for President Donald Trump to spare his life.Lezmond Mitchell, 38, was put to death by lethal injection at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute. Indiana. He was declared dead at 6:29 p.m., according to the Bureau of Prisons.He had been sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of a grandmother, Alyc
  
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• Can chemical treatments reduce toxic algal blooms on Utah Lake?

  27-08-2020 17:55
  
  With temperatures reaching into the 100s one afternoon last month, Ron Madson noticed a green slick forming around the docks he operates on Utah Lake, signifying the start of a toxic biological event that, in the past, would have shut down the Lindon Marina.But this year, the marina along with two others on Utah Lake are the sites of a new treatment program testing various strategies for knocking down harmful algal blooms that explode every summer on many Utah lakes. With eight hours of chemical
  
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• Utah woman charged with killing dog by throwing it from a fifth-floor balcony

  27-08-2020 17:17
  
  A Salt Lake City woman has been charged with assaulting her mother and throwing her mother’s dog to its death from a fifth-floor balcony.The 25-year-old woman was charged in 3rd District Court with torture of a companion animal, a first-degree felony; as well as assault and interfering with police, Class-B misdemeanors.According to charging documents, on May 25 police found the mother sitting in her car with her dog. The woman’s nose was bleeding and she appeared to have been punched
  
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• This week in Mormon Land: Angel Moroni shows up on Catholic covers, temple prayer rolls go online, scholar discusses those gold plates

  27-08-2020 16:51
  
  The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Subscribe here.Trouble With AngelA Catholic publisher, it seems, “entertained” a Mormon angel unaware.The Oregon Catholic Press put an image of Angel Moroni — of Book of Mormon fame — on the cover of two of its
  
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• Utah Task Force deployed to Louisiana for Hurricane Laura rescue efforts

  27-08-2020 16:38
  
  Almost exactly 15 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana early Thursday morning as a Category 4 storm.And just like in 2005, Utah Task Force 1 deployed 80 state emergency responders to Louisiana overnight Wednesday to help with rescue efforts. The last time the Utah Task Force deployed to help in the aftermath of a hurricane was two years ago in Virginia, after Hurricane Florence hit the area.19 Firefighters from @slcfire are headed to Louisiana for
  
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• Hurricane Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater

  27-08-2020 16:23
  
  Lake Charles, La. • Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast with ferocious wind and torrential rain and unleashed a wall of seawater that could push 40 miles inland as the Category 4 storm roared ashore Thursday in Louisiana near the Texas border. At least one person was killed.Laura battered a tall building in Lake Charles, blowing out windows as glass and debris flew to the ground. Police spotted a floating casino that came unmoored and hit a bridge. But hours after the hurricane made land
  
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• Vice President Mike Pence defends police at convention amid rising race tension

  27-08-2020 15:54
  
  Baltimore • Vice President Mike Pence forcefully defended law enforcement Wednesday night but made no mention of the Black Americans killed by police this year as he addressed Republican convention proceedings that unfolded amid new protests against racial injustice following the latest shooting.The evening’s featured speaker, Pence argued that Democratic leaders are allowing lawlessness to prevail from coast to coast. He and others described cities wracked by violence, though protest
  
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• Sports stop again, this time players decide when they resume

  27-08-2020 15:38
  
  Lake Buena Vista, Fla. • NBA players didn’t come to Disney solely for a restart. They wanted social reform.The Milwaukee Bucks showed how far they're willing to go to get it by opting not to play in their playoff game Wednesday. Two more games were postponed later in the day, the second time this season NBA basketball came to an immediate halt.Other sports followed, just as they did in March when the season was suspended four months because of the coronavirus pandemic.This time, the p
  
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• With ‘David Copperfield,’ a director and star find the humor and modern voice of Charles Dickens

  27-08-2020 15:24
  
  The movies haven’t always been good to Charles Dickens.“There’s a lot more to him than has been conveyed in adaptations,” said Armando Iannucci, the satire-adept creator of HBO’s “Veep” and director of “The Death of Stalin” and “In the Loop.” “We have this image of him as a long-winded Victorian novelist who writes about mud and fog and death. In fact, he’s really very, very funny.”Iannucci plumbs a Dickens class
  
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• Review: A new ‘David Copperfield’ shows Dickens’ story is as timely as ever

  27-08-2020 15:24
  
  For a filmmaker best known for lacerating satire, director Armando Iannucci manages something delightful in his newest movie, “The Personal History of David Copperfield”: He blows the cobwebs off of the classic Charles Dickens novel, bringing it to rambunctious life without sacrificing a jot of its Victorian sensibility.There’s still a spirited wit at work in Iannucci’s and co-screenwriter Simon Blackwell’s script — something to be expected from the minds behi
  
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• U.S. attorneys demand court appearance after Rep. Phil Lyman fails to hand over tax records

  27-08-2020 15:08
  
  Utah Rep. Phil Lyman has ignored a federal order to hand over his tax returns, and prosecutors are asking a judge to order him to appear in court.On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney John Huber and Assistant Attorney Allison J.P. Moon filed a motion stating that Lyman did not turn over the required documents by a May 1 deadline and has not responded to correspondence. The attorneys asked a federal judge to compel Lyman to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt.The tax returns review relates to
  
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• Leonard Pitts: To be African American is to be appraised

  27-08-2020 15:00
  
  It comes early in an African American life.Before "Pomp and Circumstance" is played.Before the corsage and the limousine ride.Before final exam, favorite teacher and science project.Before first kiss.Before any of that, someone has appraised you — millions of someones who have never met nor even seen you. And they have decided yours is a life that matters less. The consequences of that decision, often made implicitly, below the level of conscious thought, can be brutal.Which brings us to J
  
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• Robert Gehrke: Burgess Owens is realizing politics is a contact sport — just like the NFL

  27-08-2020 14:00
  
  For a decade, Burgess Owens patrolled NFL secondaries playing free safety for the New York Jets and Oakland Raiders, a position known, especially then, for dishing out and taking punishing hits.Now he’s in politics, running as the Republican candidate in Utah’s 4th Congressional District and getting a moment in the spotlight — he spoke Wednesday, endorsing President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention.He’s also coming to learn that politics, like the NFL, i
  
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• Letter: Where is Spencer Cox?

  27-08-2020 14:00
  
  Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox is supposedly in charge of this fall’s election in Utah. Given that the Trump regime is attempting to destroy our ability to vote by mail, which is how we vote in Utah, it is incumbent on Spencer Cox to immediately address the situation to the voters of Utah.This raises the question: Where is he? Hiding in a hole like a little church mouse? He wants to be our “leader,” yet does not have the courage or fortitude to address the situation at hand.Come out from
  
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• Letter: Trump doesn’t deserve reelection

  27-08-2020 14:00
  
  More than 175,000 Americans are dead from the Coronavirus, our unemployment is the highest since 1940, and tens of thousands of Americans may soon be evicted from their homes.The virus will have killed more than 225,000 by the election. 30 million people were collecting unemployment benefits in mid June and roughly 50% of these layoffs will probably become permanent.Trump claims he deserves reelection because of the rise of the stock market. Nonsense. The stock market doesn't accurately reflect
  
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• Letter: The definition of ‘hypocrisy’

  27-08-2020 14:00
  
  In www.dictionary.com, “hypocrisy” is defined as: “a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.”I offer an example: One who votes by mail, then stops me from doing as he did, because it will lead to fraud.Jon Sebba, MurraySubmit a letter to the editor
  
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• Letter: Keep your children and teachers safe – please mask up

  27-08-2020 14:00
  
  I am daily aghast at the letters to The Public Forum, and journalistic reports, of parents protesting against their children being asked to wear small face masks to attend school, or at all, as an infringement of their rights of freedom of choice.I grew up in the United Kingdom and started school at five years old during the latter years of World War II. For over a year of that schooling we were required to have our bulky gas masks with us at all times, stored close to our desks during class and
  
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• Letter: Curtis’ vote on USPS bill is disingenuous and wrong

  27-08-2020 14:00
  
  I am disappointed that my representative, John Curtis, voted against the house bill to give needed dollars to the USPS ahead of the November election — despite his statement that the USPS needs additional funding. It may be true that mail-in ballots will increase demands on the system by less than 2%, but the percentage is debatable because many more than usual mail-in ballots will be used.Recently, the USPS removed high volume sorting machines, mailboxes and cut overtime. Although Louis D
  
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• Letter: Congress should pass the Lymphedema Treatment Act

  27-08-2020 14:00
  
  Especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, lymphedema patients must have the medical supplies they need to safely manage their condition at home. The Lymphedema Treatment Act (S.518/H.R.1948) is a bipartisan bill that will improve insurance coverage for medically necessary, prescription compression supplies. Without this central component of treatment, lymphedema patients are at significantly increased risk of infection and hospitalization. With more than 450 cosponsors, the Lymphedema Treatm
  
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• Laura moves toward landfall in southwestern Louisiana

  27-08-2020 06:59
  
  Delcambre, La. •Laura roared toward landfall in southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border as a menacing Category 4 hurricane late Wednesday, pushing ocean water topped with waves on to a low-lying coast that forecasters said would be inundated with “unsurvivable” storm surge as much as 20 feet deep.Winds gusted above hurricane force to 91 mph (146 kph) at a coastal monitoring station while Laura was still offshore, and forecasters said even stronger winds were coming that cou
  
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• A personal, historic protest that brought the NBA to a stop

  27-08-2020 06:54
  
  The game clock sits at 0.0 after the scheduled start time of Game 5 of the Milwaukee Bucks-Orlando Magic first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox, Associated PressxKISSIMMEE, Fla. — The Milwaukee Bucks didn’t leave the locker room on Wednesday when they were scheduled to play the Orlando Magic in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference playoff series.
  Instead, they called Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
  According to ESPN’s Ra
  
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• New Zealand mosque shooter sentenced to life without parole

  27-08-2020 06:38
  
  Christchurch, New Zealand • The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.The judge imposed the maximum available sentence on 29-year-old Australian gunman Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the first time the sentence has been imposed in New Zealand.Judge Cameron Mander said Tarrant's crimes were so wicked that a life time in jail could not begin to atone for them. He said they had caused en
  
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• Reports: Season hangs in balance after day of postponement

  27-08-2020 06:06
  
  An empty court and bench are shown following the scheduled start time in of Game 5 of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | Kevin C. Cox, Pool Photo via AP KISSIMMEE, Fla. — After the Milwaukee Bucks’ Wednesday boycott of their playoff game against the Orlando Magic prompted athletes in sports leagues around the country to not play, Thursday’s NBA contests — including the Utah Jazz’s Game 6 matchup again
  
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• As NBA players wrestle with whether to continue playing, at the least, Jazz’s Game 6 against Nuggets is likely off

  27-08-2020 05:44
  
  A year already overflowing with breaking points got yet another this week when 29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot seven times from behind by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer.On Wednesday afternoon, the Milwaukee Bucks shocked the world by opting not to play in their scheduled first-round playoff game against the Orlando Magic in protest of ongoing racial injustice.By Wednesday evening, the remainder of the NBA season was teetering on the brink.Multiple news outlets reported that an emergency m
  
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• Provo City Council approved a mask mandate with fines. After a mayor veto, they’ll vote again.

  27-08-2020 05:13
  
  In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the Provo City Council approved a citywide mask mandate.The mandate requires people to wear face masks in public spaces, public buildings and public events where social distancing is not possible. Any outdoor gathering with more than 25 people requires mask wearing if people can’t socially distance. It also requires face coverings at any indoor gathering of 50 people or more, regardless of whether social distancing is possible. The City Council also calle
  
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• GOP convention defends police as racial tension rises anew

  27-08-2020 04:55
  
  Washington •Republicans aggressively defended law enforcement on the third night of their convention, as the nation faced renewed tensions following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Wisconsin that sparked protests in a state that could decide the fall election.Vice President Mike Pence, the evening's featured speaker, seized on the national reckoning over racial injustice to argue that Democratic leaders are allowing lawlessness to prevail in cities from coast to coast. He
  
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• Burgess Owens touts Trump’s record on race in speech at the Republican National Convention

  27-08-2020 04:09
  
  Burgess Owens introduced himself to a national audience Wednesday, told his life story, took a jab at Joe Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and sought to encourage Black Americans to support President Donald Trump.Owens, the Republican candidate in Utah’s tight 4th Congressional District contest, was among the speakers on the third night of the Republican National Convention, which included heavy themes on race and opportunity in America.The speech was a big opportunity for Owens to
  
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